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Hedgehog, &}y$ chula, Mod. Pers. : lf*> chaha Panj. 



> 



Hen, ^*j* murghi y Hindu. : &\jSU makiyan Pers. ; gU>a dujaj f 



Ar., vide also Brood. 

 Herd, [Of Swannys, Cranys, Corlewys, Wrennys, and Harlottys]. 

 Heron, 1 jU^j butzmar in the Kapurthala State, Panj., and in 



Persia, also in Ind. Pers. MSS. : ^J^ bila,i in the Derajat ; 



iSj 



#• 



Ja. chilam in Sindh : ^S 



!* 



haveza 



>#a> kabud, (^3^j 



1#j Mac? in Oudh, etc. ; <£>&^ chilang 

 applied to the storks) ; fylsy* hukara, 



&*> haaar* >^f 



; 



2^ar, etc., for j&c 'w/ar (in Persia the Common Heron, but in 

 an Ind. Pers. MS. the Purple Heron) : <3lj vaq, Mod. Pers. 

 (Night-heron q. v.) : )\£j& kharkar in Chach Hazara, *^ jah 



in Sialkot, iS)\y^ r**X$ chin-dakh-khurai or "frog-eater 



•) i 



in Bannu, *^a» jarda, Mod. Pers., and <jr>* nari, Kapurthala 



(the Purple Heron); ^j zuraqi (ditto in Basra, Pers. 

 Gulf): vide Xight-heron, Egret and Paddy-bird: vide also 

 Sedge. 



Hey and Heye, (high, in good condition) ^L ^j^ o«v £- <L%- 



or <£- ly* ij^A o-i^ ^aa: i*^)«j chaldne ke badan men hai 

 baghlon men gosht bhara hit, a hai. 



Hern, Her nshaw, m'rfe Heron. 



Hobby , a <^jj^ and 4,53**, dawn and daureli, Hindi: ^^j regi y 

 Hindu., (in some parts; a name given in the Derajat to the 

 English Merlin, and in the Kapurthala State to the Com- 

 mon Kestrel) : lU^ kajal, in Chach Hazara : ^j** dhoti (of 

 some falconers ; vide Sparrow-hawk) : ^3^3 dhidi or <J>j*f 

 ke,oti, Panj. : J*) layl, Mod. Pers. : 3 £*j>J\ al-baydaq, Ar. 

 MS.; SjlaJi as-saqawah, Ar. MS. 



Holde-fast 4 [In the begynnyng of kyndli spech of the termys 



1 Vide Ji. Asiatic Society of Bengal, Vol. Ill, No. 8, 1907. 



* The 4 Hoby ' was a hawk for a * yong man.' 



3 According to an Indian writer, the Hobby in Turki is &xu e;i^5) 

 lachin bachcha. 



* Hold-fast. A phrase used to horses to move them from one cock 

 of hay to the next in carting it, as well as to caution the men on the top 

 to hold fast. Var. dial. — HalliwelL 



